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This last week ended up being pretty good for us. Michelle was able to come to church with her family and they really enjoyed it. She is progressing so well right now and we set her baptismal date for Jan 29th. Her two sons Grady and Grant aren't too keen on the whole baptism idea but they are at least coming to mutual and really loving that. They'll come around one day, hopefully soon. Grant likes to claim that he's atheist but he's just trying to be different.

Valorie wasn't there at church yesterday which was a bummer. We had a great lesson with her on Sunday and she said that she was planning on coming. We're not sure what happened. We're going to be trying to see her today sometime to see whats up.

Rita and Robert have taken a turn for the worst it seems. Robert called us Saturday night to tell us that Rita had hurt her ankle and wouldn't be able to come to church. I was understandably devastated because that would mean her date would drop back to after I left and would mean that I wouldn't be able to baptize her like she asked me to. "That's not going to be a problem is it?" Robert asked"Well... to be baptized we like to see people come to church three times and..." I started"Well! Rita is offended about your lesson on Friday!......" And Robert just went off about how we offended Rita when we taught the word of wisdom. He said we were too pushy in asking to take their stuff and throw it away and that Rita didn't want to get baptized any more. He said he would talk to her and we should wait for a phone call. We're not so sure that I believe Robert. Rita had such a great testimony. I think it's more Robert not wanting to change and so he's stopping it all. Which is too bad for Rita. Hopefully she'll call us sometime and we'll be able to work this thing out.

Finally we got a phone call from Bro Mathis, who is the High Priest Group Leader, telling us that one of his home teaching families has an un-baptized child who wants to get baptized! We have an appointment tomorrow to start teaching her. We're super excited about that!

Well hope all is well on the home frontLove you guys.

Elder Harris